Derived from JJ WIlson 'How to Teach Listening'. No copyright intended. This info doesn't belong to me.

1. Derived from: JJ Wilson, ‘How to Teach
Listening’,
Chapter 1, page 21-24,
Published by: Pearson Longman

2. 1) You can’t teach people how
to listen
 Listening is an internal skill – what we
hear against our expectations and what
we know
 Some ways teachers can do to help
student;
a) Provide continual exposure to appropriate
listening material
b) Guide students towards more efficient
listening (through teaching of strategies)

3. 2) Listening is a ‘passive’
skill
 Listening is not passive – it is extremely
active
•Guess
 Listeners
•Predict
•Infer
•Criticise
•interpret

4. 3) It is easier for students to understand native
speakers of English than foreign speakers of
English
 Might be common in multilingual
classes, but less in monolingual
classes
 Monolingual classes – may be
easier for students to understand
each other than a native speaker

5. 4) The skills involved in listening to a foreign
language are the same as those that we use
for listening to our native language
 Largely true, but there are some
differences in how we apply those skills
 We tend to listen ‘with half an ear’ when
we listen to our own language (listen
without concentrating but fully
understand the content)
 While listening to foreign
language, listeners need to give full
attention to the message

6. 5) While listening in class, students
shouldn’t try to understand every word
 Speech usually consists of more
words than necessary
 Redundancy is commonplace as
we repeat ourselves and use um
and er while searching for the
right words

7. 6) Students shouldn’t be
allowed to read the scripts of
recordings
By doing so, it can lead to
‘divided attention situation’
Students will focus more on
reading rather than
listening